As You Sit in the Waiting Room of a Doctor's

question 39

Multiple Choice

As you sit in the waiting room of a doctor's office leafing through a magazine, you see a letter to the editor about world hunger. In it, the author stated, "…and thus, hunger worsens poverty....". Does hunger worsen poverty?

• A) Yes, but it can be corrected with appropriate access to reproductive health care.
• B) No; if hungry people work hard enough they can work to get themselves out of poverty.
• C) Yes, it propagates poverty by increasing the death rate and leaving many families as single-parent households.
• D) Yes, hunger makes poverty worse by robbing a person of the good health and the physical and mental energy needed to be active and productive.

Describe the evolutionary origins and initial purposes of feathers in early theropods.

Understand the characteristics and traits that define mammals and their evolutionary relationships.

Apply the principle of maximum parsimony to determine phylogenetic relationships.

Identify the unique and shared traits between dinosaurs, modern birds, and specific extinct species.

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Definitions:

Test Statistic

A standardized value derived from sample data during a hypothesis test which is used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Lower Tailed Test

A statistical test used to determine if a dataset's lower end values significantly differ from the hypothesized value.

Test Statistic

A standardized value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test that is used to make a decision about the null hypothesis.

P-value

The probability of obtaining test results at least as extreme as the ones observed during the test, assuming the null hypothesis is true.